1 Timothy 3:14-16

Common English Bible

Leading God’s household

¹⁴I hope to come to you quickly. But I’m writing these things to you so that ¹⁵if I’m delayed, you’ll know how you should behave in God’s household. It is the church of the living God and the backbone and support of the truth. ¹⁶Without question, the mystery of godliness is great: he was revealed as a human, declared righteous by the Spirit, seen by angels, preached throughout the nations, believed in around the world, and taken up in glory.

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Psalm 111:1-6

Common English Bible

Psalm 111^[a]

111 Praise the Lord!
    I thank the Lord with all my heart
    in the company of those who do right, in the congregation.
²The works of the Lord are magnificent;
    they are treasured by all who desire them.
³God’s deeds are majestic and glorious.
    God’s righteousness stands forever.
⁴God is famous for his wondrous works.
    The Lord is full of mercy and compassion.
⁵God gives food to those who honor him.
    God remembers his covenant forever.
⁶God proclaimed his powerful deeds to his people
    and gave them what had belonged to other nations.

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Footnotes

Psalm 111:1 Ps 111 is an alphabetic acrostic poem; see the note at Pss 9–10.

Luke 7:31-35

Common English Bible

³¹“To what will I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “What are they like? ³²They are like children sitting in the marketplace calling out to each other, ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t cry.’ ³³John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ ³⁴Yet the Human One^[a] came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ ³⁵But wisdom is proved to be right by all her descendants.”